All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his or her "characteristics," all the emotions, strivings, tastes, and constructions which it pleases us to call "My Life." We have grounds to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.
I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person.
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.
A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.
To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
It is a joy to be choked with thought.
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
When I didn't argue he was satisfied he had persuaded me, and was not the first to make that mistake.
I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.
He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.
We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.
Love is the most potent cosmetic.
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